{"id":4271,"date":"2013-12-17T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2014-01-20T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:58:14","slug":"duplicating-a-mono-or-single-channel-track-into-stereo-in-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2013\/12\/duplicating-a-mono-or-single-channel-track-into-stereo-in-audacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicating a Mono (or Single Channel) Track into Stereo in Audacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really simple set of steps to duplicate one channel of a stereo recording to the other channel, but for the life of me, I cannot ever seem to remember it so I am going to write it dow so I can refer back to it.<\/p>\n<p>My problem is that I use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QWBM62\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B001QWBM62&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=drchu02-20\" target=\"_new\">Zoom H4N Portable Digital Recorder<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=drchu02-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B001QWBM62\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>and high quality microphone to record my <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/computing-conversations\/id731495760\" target=\"_new\">IEEE Computer Computing Conversations<\/a> podcasts and so I end up with a single channel in a stereo track with the other channel completely silent.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the steps to duplicate the track with sound to the other track so both channels are identical:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nFrom the track drop-down by the file name \"Split Stereo Track\r\n\r\nSelect the entire upper track by double clicking and Copy (i.e. Command-C)\r\n\r\nMove the cursor to the very beginning of the empty track and Paste (i.e. Command-V)\r\n\r\nSelect both the top track and bottom track (Using click on one track shift click on the other track or Command-A)\r\n\r\nFrom the track Drop-down by the file name select \"Make Stereo Track\"\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Surprisingly simple yet hard for to remember if I do it only once per month.<\/p>\n<p>This web site helped me figure it out in the first place &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/chacadwa.com\/foh\/mono-to-stereo-in-audacity\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chacadwa.com\/foh\/mono-to-stereo-in-audacity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really simple set of steps to duplicate one channel of a stereo recording to the other channel, but for the life of me, I cannot ever seem to remember it so I am going to write it dow so I can refer back to it. My problem is that I use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}